Delhi excise policy case | HC seeks ED response on K. Kavitha’s bail plea
The HinduThe Delhi High Court on May 10 asked the Enforcement Directorate to respond to the bail plea by Bharat Rashtra Samiti MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha in a money laundering case in connection with the now-scrapped excise policy. Ms. Kavitha has challenged a trial court’s May 6 order by which her bail application was dismissed in the money laundering case. Ms. Kavitha was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate first for her alleged role in money laundering in the excise policy case and was sent to Tihar Jail. The daughter of BRS president and former Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was arrested from her residence in Hyderabad on March 15 on charges of being a part of the ‘South Group’ that allegedly paid ₹100 crore to the AAP government in Delhi for altering the liquor policy of the Delhi government to suit their business needs.